Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700–1840

Brycchan Carey is Professor of English at Northumbria University, Newcastle

upon Tyne, UK. The author of numerous publications on eighteenth-century

literature and culture, his monographs include British Abolitionism and the

Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760–1807 (2005) and

From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery,

1657–1761 (2012).

Sayre Greenfield is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at

Greensburg, USA. He has been a research fellow at Chawton House Library and

has recently contributed an essay on Shakespearean allusions to The Cambridge

Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare and various essays on Austen to Persuasions:

The Jane Austen Journal. He is also the co-editor of Jane Austen in Hollywood(2001) and the author of The Ends of Allegory (1998).

Anne Milne is Lecturer at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. She

was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in

Munich, Germany (2011) and published ‘Lactilla Tends Her Fav’rite Cow’: Ecocritical

Readings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class

Women’s Poetry in 2008. Her research highlights animals, environment, and local

cultural production in eighteenth-century British poetry.